Nonfiction writer Robert Moor joins co-hosts Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about his new book, In Trees, and the power of “tree thinking,” a concept developed by the evolutionary biologist Robert J. O’Hara. Moor explains how this form of thought emphasizes branching, growth, and pruning, as opposed to hierarchical ordering, and shows how these principles can be identified in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Wordsworth. He explores the role the giant sequoia played in founding modern conservatism and takes listeners on a tour of his own experiences in the trees from Papua New Guinea to Vancouver, Canada, where he participated in a tree sit with activists protesting an oil pipeline. He discusses the ethics of climate activism and how tree thinking might help us re-imagine the environmental movement for a new age. He reads from In Trees.

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Robert Moor

• In Trees by Robert Moor | Moon Palace Books
• On Trails by Robert Moor | Moon Palace Books

Others

• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• “The Trouble with Wilderness” by William Cronon
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 56: Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical Environmentalism
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